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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
ANONYMOUS LETTERS.
Why, rs Rule, wise Man VIII Not En-
tIrely Diarc9nrd Them.

tircly Disregard Them.
We may, as general principle, speak
with very great and deserved scorn Of
anonymous leeters; but, as rule, q wise
man will not disregard them. I have
heard q public man declare that he
always threw anonymous letters into the
fire without reading them. I think he
made mistake, and that it might be
possible to get some good out of them.
The many anonymous letters received
by leading statesmen may serve to indi-
cate the drift of popular feeling and
opinion. At the present time the police
take the liveliest interest in anonymous
communications, and at no time indeed
have they disregarded them. A good
many of the letters are obviously written
with the deliberate intention Of setting
the police on false scent. But with
out doubt a great deal Of valu-
able information may be obtained this
way. The case is very conceivable
where man may be willing enough to
do service to the cause of justice or
preservation Of life, without putting
himself into dangerous position by
turning public informer. Many hints
have been given which have resulted in
important consequences; arrests have
been made, crimes have been prevented,
lives have been saved, by anonymous
writers. The letters which have seemed
the least noticeable have had the most
important results. From the time of
King James and the Gunpowder plot,
there have been some Of special use this
way. Anonymous letters proceed from
persons who are willing to do good
turn or to do bad turn, as the case
may be. Letters of this sort from peo-
pie willing to do a good turn are in I'm
nconceivable minority as compared to
letters from those willing to do had
turn. If a man has got into very seri-
GUS trouble at some time of his life,
and has gone away to begin new
life in new place, how often it hap.
pens that the old story is raked up; the
dastardly anonymous letter has. assas.
sin-like, followed him to his new friends
or his new employers. Harry gets an
anonymous letter asking him if he
knows all about his Harriet's previous
engagement to young Dunderhead, and
If he knows how it came to be broken
off. A man of business gets mysteri-
Gus communication asking him if he
knows that his most esteemed customer
has made an application for loan and
been refused. Few persons could have
known about the engagement OF about
the fruitless application. and one of
these persons must have been
the writer of the missive. It may not
have been possible to find out who has
been the writer of the anonymous let
no doubt, the person least
suspected. The secret is perhaps re-
vealed ut last, and too late, long after
the mischief has been done, and perhaps
when both the mischief-maker and the
dupe are alike equally remote from these
'ublunary interests. Society.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

PROF. PLINY ERIE CHASE, whose
death has just been announced, was
one of the most accomplished linguists
in the country. He could readily con-
verse in eight different languages, and
he could with little difficulty read and
write a hundred more. But he did not
give all his attention to philology. He
eXcelled as scientist, and received the
Magellane medal for scholarly paper
on magnetism and gravity. This
medal, by the way, was stolen from
him by burglars and never recovered.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Showed In.

MICHIGAN CITY, IND, Jan. 2.-The pres
ent storm on the railroads is the worst in
this locality in five years. Fortunately
the weather is not very cold, or the roads
would be unable to move train. There
Is over fve feet Of snow on level in ex-
posed places, while in the ravines it is
some six feet deep. The Michigan Central
had to abandon several of their passenger
trains one at Niles, going west, and two
east-bound trains here. Three west-bound
passenger trains became stalled in drifts
five miles east of here, and it required
nearly all day with five locomotives to
bring them ON to this city.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

The Supreme Court of Nebraska has
laid down ruling that will interest
pedestrians generally, at a season of
the year when snow comes more rap
idly than it goes. The court decides
that city is liable for damages when.
in consequence of its negligence in re-
moving snow from sidewalks, man
falls and Injuries himself. If the de-
cision is good law it may lead to the in
estimable blessing of the sidewalks in
at least the leading thoroughfares of
large cities being occasionally cleared
of snow.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Both Killed In a DueI.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Dec. 2S.-News Of q
bloody Christmas tragedy in Bibb County
reached the city to-day. Robert Wood and
James Bowman had been rivals for the
heart of Miss Juliet Hasman. A short
time ago Wood and the young lady We're
married, and Bowman's hatred of his sue
cessful rival became intense. The parties
met Christmas night at an entertainment,
and after Il few words between Wood and
Bowman, both drew their pistols and began
shooting AS the last cartridge was emp
tied Wood fell into the arms of his young
wife corpse, and Bowman sank to the
floor mortally wounded.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Loean's Burial Caskct.

UTICA, N. Y, Dec. 2S-The order for the
casket for the late General John A. Logan
was received by an undertaking firm Of
Oneida from Washington this afternoon
1t is to be of Spanish red cedar, covered
with broadcloth and heavily draped with
the same, the drapery to be trimmed with
silk fringe and tassels. This casket will
inclose full glass air-tight copper case,
which will be tufted throughout with
cream-tinted satin, and there will be pill
low Of the same material. The top of the
case will open full length, and will also be
tufted with tinted satin. The whole
is to be inclosed in a polished red cedar
outside box, with gold-plated trimmings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

Two GENUINE curios have just been
dug up in boring an artesian well ut
Atlantic City. One was a birds bill,
found at depth of 710 feet; the other
a sharks tooth. at depth of 700 feet.
1t is, of course, familiar fact in geol-
ogy that greater part of the dry land
on the globe has been deposited on the
floor Of the primeval ocean or at the
bottom of immense rivers and lakes.
The mind fails, however, to realize the
immense period Of time which must
have been required to deposit cover.
ing 700 feet in thickness.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Tue DAIRY.


While milk is standing for cream
TO rise, the purity Of the cream. and
consequently the fine flavor and keep
ing Of the butter, will be injured II the
surface of the cream is exposed freely
to air much warmer than the cream
Boston Post.
-"One-half the difficulty in making
good butter is the care Of the milk, and
not in the mode Of churning," says
writer. "From the time the milk is
drawn from the COW until the cream is
ready to be used, the strictest care
should be exercised in keeping it clean
and free from exposure to odors.' "
Ftoatcr.
1t is the opinion Of DR.. Hoskins
that there is really no true '.grain" to
butter, pure butter being homogeneous
in its texture. What is called the
'grain" is granular appearance re-
sulting. from a general and equal distri-
button Of briny water, separating the
little pellets Of butter that first appear
in churning. .-Fleld and Farm.
Raising cows for the dairy is very
much neglected by those who should
give it their attention. No dairyman
can be successful who purchases his
fresh cows. BY the use of thoroughbred
bulls the yield of the herd can in few
years be largely increased, while the
method OF purchasing cows rs required
admits of no improvement whatever.-
Missouri Republican.
Butter. except in Athens, is not
known in Greece; but in the spring the
milk of sheep or goats is boiled, allowed
to sour, then put into the skin OF the
goat prepared for the purpose. Two
men take this by the neck and tail,
shake it back and forth, then pour the
milk into large wooden bowl. A thick
white foam or cream is formed; this is
sold as butter.-Montreat Witness.
Loose boxes for cows need not be
large. They are, indeed, all the more
comfortable and neat if of large size,
say twelve feet square,; but boxes seven
feet square are large enough to give
cows great comfort, little exercise, or,
least, change of position as often as
desired, greater degree of cleanliness
than is attainable except in stanchions,
and to save much labor to the attend
ant. Corner racks and feed boxes are
best. Doors or gates should shut close
to the floor or ground, both to prevent
draughts of air reaching the cow or
young calf, and to prevent the animals
getting their feet under them when ly-
ing down.-Anerican Dairyman.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

A PIANO with case made entirely of
paper is a recent German production.
As described, the color is creamy
white; the tone is reported to be char
acterized by sweetness rather than
loudness; the sound emitted, unlike
the short, broken note of the ordinary
piano, being soft, full and slightly con-
tinuous, somewhat resembling that of
the organ. This modification of tone,
which must be considered an attractive
feature, is attributed to the evenness of
texture of the compressed paper.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Fifteen LIVES LOST.
Railroad Authorities Refuse to Give D.
tails of a Frightfully Fatal Collision,

Railroad Authorities Refuse to Give De-
tails of a Frightfully Fatal Collision.
GALVESTON, Jan. "A special to the
Ners from San Antonio says: "The officials
and employees of the Southern Pacific rail-
road still refuse to give any information
regarding the collision last Friday evening
OF freight train and construction train
in deep cut near DEVILS river. Twelve
or fifteen lives were lost,
nearly all the persons killed
being MeXicans. The names of
the people could not be ascertained, as the
men connected with the road refuse to
give any information whatever. Four or
five dead bodies from the wreck were
brought in last evening, and sew raj of the
manned passed through, en- route to Co.
lumbus for treatment at the railroad hos
pital. When the trains collided they
caught fire, and two cars and locomotive
were burned up. Most of the killed and
wounded received their injuries by being
burned.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

CHICAGO, Dec. 2s-Fred witrock, who
was arrested by the Pinkertons in connec-
tion with the express robbery in which he
is alleged to have figured as "Jim Cum.
mings," was in the coal business on West
Lake street. He appears to have been
in debt, for John Murray, a coal dealer,
began an attachment to-day in the Superior
Court against him for an unpaid account
of $742.
NASHVILLE, TENN, Dec. 2s.-Mrs. Haight,
wife Of the express robber arrested here
Christmas Day, left for st. Louis tonight,
in charge Of detective. She is thought
to have aided in planning the robbery, and
to have $4,000 of the money in her pos
session.
LEAvENwoRTH, KAs., Dec. 2s.-The details
OF the Pacific Express robbery, as pub
lished this morning have created much
comment here. Every party yet impli.
Gated in 1t Is former resident Of Leaven.
worth. Weaver, Cook, Witrock and Haight
were school boys here together. As they
grew up they became wild and reckless,
and were always classed as rough charac-
ters. They were all here last summer, and
1t is believed that the robbery was planned
q Leavenworth.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

DR.. VIM. PERRY, of Exeter, N. H.,
the oldest living graduate of Harvard,
celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday,
recently. He is the sole survivor of the
passengers who sailed down the Hud-
son on Robert Fulton's steamboat, sew
enty-nine years ago. DR.. Perry has
been for years successful and noted
surgeon. He has the credit of being
the first person in New Hampshire to
conceive the idea of erecting an asylum
for the insane.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
A VIENNA correspondent says that

A VIENNA correspondent says that
Austrians are unanimous in saying that
every thing with regard to the peace of
europe depends on the Car, whom
hey assert indulges to excess of late,
and has several times been on the
verge of delirium tremens. They ex-
press the fear that in his cups, the Rus
sian ruler may at any moment commit
an act of folly that will preeipitate the
disruption of the existing peaceful re-
1ations of the Powers.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
TOO MUCH MONEY.
How Much Very Rich Men Can Lcgltimaas.
ly Expend In u Month.

NV" NAucIi very Ittcn wen Can LCRltlmA9O.
ly Expend In u Month.
As l was saying, knew Il fellow who
has acquaintance with these Million
aires. His conversation soothed and
consoled me to some extent. He de-
precated the possession of too much
money. So did l. He declared it did
not contribute to human happiness to
any thing like the extent people
imagined. I agreed with him. He
said, indeed, that men of moderate
means were the only contented men
the only men who enjoyed life.
grasped his hand.
Eyes" he said, "thosc men have all
SO much money that they can not
derive any benefit from it. dined,"
he went on, "once with half dozen
millionaires. have had better din
ner at the club or the restaurant
but that is no matter. After dinner
they began talking of how much
money man could expend in having
the most luxurious necessities of life,
not speaking, of course, of pictures, or
hobbies, or tastes that one could live
without. One of them figured it out.
He had a complete establishment in
town, wife and child. He had in the
establishment every thing that was in
the faintest degree necessary to perfect
comfort. He had thirteen servants, six
carriages and six horses; his wife was
the most elegantly dressed woman in
town; his child had every thing that
money could buy. He had besides a
place in the country, non-productive, in
which he entertained frequently, al
though not in the style of such places as
Belmont He had twenty-five employees
on his country place, sixty breeding and
racing horses, and yacht which cost
him about $4,000 month, and for all
.these--house IN town, place in country,
his wife's dresses, his household ex-
penses-he could not without waste ex-
pend more than $4,000 month.
Then wept.
But the popular idea on the subject Of
what establishments cost is vague, and
rs rule entirely beyond the mark.
Several very rich men who stint them
selves in nothing in their houses, who
entertain as much as taste can possibly
who have every comfort and
every luxury, concur in the statement
that it is impossible to expend on
the running of household more
than $4,000 o month. He can buy
pictures and keep adding expensive
articles and all that sort of thing, but
you can not find luxuries and acccsso-
ries that cost beyond that amount of
money unless you go in for wanton
waste, encumbering rather than bring
ing any return in comfort. So you see
all you want is e12O, 600 year and the
capital, and don't you wish you may get
itP One millionaire here, who has q
most noted establishment and maintains
the most luxurious style, admitted that
he could not find any thing he could
make any use of in his household over
$1,000 month. Perhaps that will suit
you better. We have lower and cheaper
classes of millionaire goods, madame.
We have an article we can sell at s., 900
a month, and II that doesn't suit. you
We can offer you millionaire's estab-
lishment that costs $3.50 a month. You
wouldn't care to 60 lower, surely. San
Francisco Chronicle.
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
A Tank CoIIansea.

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Dec. 2s.-The grid
ers supporting u huge water-tank in
Helms brewery snapped this afternoon.
The tank fell thirty feet, wrecking an ice
machine, iberating large quantities of am
monia gas that enveloped and stified the
workmen. John Kieffer was instantly
killed by the collapse. John Burke and
Jas. Turner were injured and suKocated
by ammonia.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
A BALrIMoRE tizen of extepsivc

A BALTIMORE c tizen of extensive
sToirdupois has reduced his weight
twenty-five pounds in three weeks upon
diet OF which faster Succis mysteri-
ons powder forms component part.
He takes three teaspoonfuls of this
mixture In u day, eats nothing else,
claims TO have no appetite for solid
food, and is wcll and strong. If this
sort OF diet comes into general use, it
will be a little hard upon the grocers
ana provision men. but will greatly
simplify tho now complicated ways Of
living and housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Holocaust i'm Alabama

MOBILE, ALA, Dec. 29.-The steamboat
Bradish Johnson, used as boarding. house
ut jackson, Ala, where the West Alabama
railroad bridge is building, was burned at
ten O'Clock last night. Two whites-Otis
McElroy, of Mobile, and Dan Milhouse, of
New York-are missing; and two negroes
Lewis Adams and Ben Bush-were
drowned. 1t is believed that ten others,
all negroes, perished in the flames, and ten
others drowned
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Cluyerius, Efforts for Life.

RICHMOND, VA, Dec. 3O.-Cluverius, the
condemned murderer of Fannie Lillian
Madison, has sent out circulars to members
of the General Assembly for the purpose
OF getting them to sign a petition asking
the Governor to grant him reprieve until
they meet. When the Legislature meets
Cluvcrius hopes that they will recommend
the Governor to commute his sentence to
Imprisonment for life.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Fatal Scaffolding Accident.

WTLKEsBARRE, Pa, Dec. 3O.-At the New
Armory building at Nanticoke to-day, u
scaffold upon which five men were at
work, gave way, and the men were precip-
itated to the ground below. All were ter
ribly cut and bruised. John Oswell, q
carpenter, had both legs broken, and was
injured about the head to such an extent
that it is almost impossible for him to sur
vive the night.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

IT is an interesting fact that all
the men of national prominence who
have died of late years have gone be-
fore their wives. The most prominent
are Horatio Seymour, Grant, Garfield,
Hancock, Hendricks, Mcclellan, Sena-
TOR Miller, of California, and last, Gem
eral Logan.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
A Crank Mt IIarDe.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 3O.-S. A. Bodde,
the crank who was recently placed in the
Painesville Intirmary for H.; persistence
in visiting Mrs. Garfield, and who pro-
claimed himself in love with Mollie, daugh-
ter of the late President, escaped last night
and is still at large. He is considered
harmless and will be again imprisoned as
soon as captured
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Fotherineham IMPLICATED.

LEAvENwoRrH, KAs., Dec. 3O.-Oscar
Cook made confession yesterday lin which
he stated that Fotheringham, the Ex-
press Messenger, who is now in Jail, charg-
ed with completely in the robbery, knew
all about the plan to rob his car, and was u
willing victim to the attack of the robber.
1t is said that he was promised $4,000 Of
the amount stolen as his share of the booty,
and that sum was part of the money
which Fred Wittrock sent to his mother
for safe keeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

GOLD is still coming into the country
by millions, and Europe shows no dis
position to stop buying American secu-
rites. If war should break out there
would probably be a regular rush to in
vest in the stocks, bonds, and other
property Of this great and secure re-
public.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Valuable Papers Recovercd.

MARION, md, Dec. 30.-Yesterday two
boys, sons of Jacob Glass, found $4,000 in
promissory notes and about the same
amount of receipts, in q ditch mile east
OF Paramount The papers were taken by
robbers from the safe in T. f. Norton's
general store at Fairmount last Saturday
night, the safe having been first blown
open. The notes and receipts were in a
fair state of preservation.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
EiendiSh Fun.

CAIRO, ILL.,, Dec. 2S.-Sunday evening
last Tom Mehan and Henry Hays, two
young men, caught an old colored man
named Tom Spices, in saloon up town,
and to have some fun laid him on q billiard
table and poured turpentine upon him and
set it on fire. 1t burned more than they
expected, and they made bungling efforts
to put it out, but injured the man so that
he died to-day. Both young men are in
Jail, without bond, to answer for the
crime
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

The German-Austrian Teachers
Union has decided, 1S1 to 1863, that
they can not successfully keep school
without CAD, which makes the vi
emma Neue Freie Presse say that the
chief educational problem of the age
is not how to reform the education of
children, but how to reform the train
nng of teachers.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
A NIaohinist's Strange Imprisonmen,

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. 2s.-George
Barton, Q machinist employed In the shops
an engine this morning for the purpose OF
hxing the hre.box, and while at work got
the box In such position as to cut of his
exit, and has been confined there all dp v.
All efforts to extricate him have been n.
tile, and tonight he is no nearer liberty
than when first imprisoned.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

The poetic brain of Britain is hard
at work to celebrate the Queens Jubi-
lee. just how many eyes there are
'''in fine frenzy rolling" in consequence
it is impossible to say, but already the
stream has commenced to flow forth,
although the event does not take place
until next June.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

The Southern Forestry Congress re-
Gently asked the Governor of Virginia
TO name a native of that State, living
or dead, to whose honor the Congress
may plant tree in the National Circle.
Governor Lee has sent them the name
of George Washington, deceased. The
Congress should plant cherry tree to
his memory.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Sentenced to Hang.

OMAHA, NEB., Dec. 29.-Jenerson Long
was refused new trial at North Platte for
melting the murder Of Bascomb and wife
in April, 1885, and was sentenced yesterday.
TO hang May 20.
TRENTON, N. j., Dec. 29.-Judge Beasley
has denied the motion for new trial of
Titus, the Hackettstown janitor, condemn
ed TO death for the murder of Tllie Smith.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TwENTY-oNE years ago the steamer
Brother Jonathan went down off tho
Oregon coast with 100000 in specie
on board. Various unsuccessful efforts
have been made to get the money, and
now another effort on an elaborate
scale is to be made.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Hat Reform Movement in Boston.

BosToN, Dec. 2S.-The following paper is
being circulated among the ladies of Bos-
ton, and is receiving many signatures:
SIN view Of the fact that the stage is par
TALLY, and oftentimes almost totally con-
cealed by the bonnets and hats Of the
present mode, we, the undersigned, at the
request of the Directors of the National
Opera Company, have consented to wear,
at the evening performance of the Opera
Company in this city, neither bonnets nor
hatsn
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08
Father and Son sentonced for Life

MURPHYsBoRo, ILL.,, Dec. 29.-The trial of
the Hickam murder case is ut an end, re-
sulting in the conviction Of Tom and John
Hickam Of manslaughter and sentence of
ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. A
motion for new trial will be heard ON
Tuesday, January 4, when it is presumed
that the father and son will go in chains
together, and serve what may be consid-
cred life sentence.